Max Frisch Quotes
You merely had an affair with me, to be exact, and therefore no right to prevent me from another affair.'
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I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
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Awards are for young people. They just are.
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None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.
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My expectations are not in any future event. I would rather just be prepared for whatever might take place.
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Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
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I experienced firsthand what it means to be poor, what it means to go hungry, and that, I think, may be the reason, the root cause of why I'm able to work so hard, even these days.
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I've got the Xbox 360, a Wii, and a PlayStation 3. I got everything you could think of.
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I love to hang out with my friends and go to the movies. My mom and I are involved in the Mother/Daughter Organization - national charity work. Whenever I get free time, we volunteer. It's an organization so mothers and daughters can spend time together while volunteering.
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You can go to work and actually make someone else's job less miserable. Use your job to help others.
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I think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different from each other. It's an attitude of hunters; they're observing the prey.
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I got what I needed out of Princeton in 1 year, and I didn't think it was useful.
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The Italians have had two thousand years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place.
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See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
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Were a real and effective disarmament achieved and the funds now spent in the arms race devoted to the amelioration of man's state; were we to concentrate only on the peaceful uses of nuclear knowledge, how vastly and in how short a time might we change the conditions of mankind. This should be our goal.
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It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is 'lighter than vanity.'
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The striking surprise is that prophets of Israel were tolerated at all by their people. To the patriots, they seemed pernicious; to the pious multitude, blasphemous; to the men in authority, seditious.
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How can a mother's heart feel cold or wearyKnowing her dearer self safe, sheltered, warm?How can she feel her road too dark or dreary,Who knows her treasure sheltered from the storm?How can she sin? Our hearts may be unheeding,Our God forgot, our holy saints defied;But can a mother hear her dead child pleading,And thrust those little angel hands aside?
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I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.'
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Systems run the business and people run the systems.
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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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You merely had an affair with me, to be exact, and therefore no right to prevent me from another affair.'
